Welcome back to the most anticipated event in our calendar, the grand unveiling of this year’s entrants into The Art Bog Hall of Fame! Every year since 2003, we’ve embarked on the delightful and daunting task of selecting 20 artists who have not only shaped the contours of the art world but have also touched our souls and ignited our imaginations in irreplaceable ways.
Our Hall of Fame is a mosaic of creativity, a well earned celebration of the minds and hands that have left an indelible mark on the arts. These are the visionaries who’ve painted our perceptions with color, carved our thoughts into shapes beyond words, and captured moments that define the essence of being human.
Year after year, we sift through the annals of art history to bring you a selection that inspires, challenges, and enchants. It’s a journey through time and emotion, a celebration of legacy and innovation.
So, as we roll out the red carpet and shine the spotlight on this year’s luminaries, we invite you to join us in this annual pilgrimage. Together, let’s explore the stories, the artistry, and the magic that each member of The Art Bog Hall of Fame brings into our lives. Here’s to the artists who’ve dared to dream in color, line, and light, and here’s to you, our fellow travelers in this annual quest for beauty and meaning.
Welcome to The Art Bog Hall of Fame. Let the celebration begin!
- Wilhelm Amberg, German painter
- Sophie Gengembre Anderson, French/British painter
- Émile Bayard, French illustrator
- Józef Chełmoński, Polish painter
- Pierre-Auguste Cot, French painter
- George Cruikshank, British illustrator
- Władysław Czachórski, Polish painter
- Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter
- M.C. Escher, Dutch printmaker
- Thomas Gainsborough, English painter
- Eastman Johnson, American painter
- Isaac Levitan, Russian painter
- Angelo Morbelli, Italian painter
- Adrien Moreau, French painter, sculptor and illustrator
- James Nairn, New Zealand painter
- Gaetano Previati, Italian painter
- George Romney, English painter
- Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator
- Władysław Ślewiński, Polish painter
- Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter and drawer
Previous Classes
2003
- Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter
- Pieter Bruegel The Elder, Flemish painter and printmaker
- Gustave Caillebotte, French painter
- Edgar Degas, French painter and pastel artist
- Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect and designer
- Edward Hopper, American painter and printmaker
- Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter
- Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor
- Claude Monet, French painter
- Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
- Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter
- John Singer Sargent, American painter
- Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter
- Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer
- Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
- Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter and printmaker
- Anders Zorn, Swedish painter
2004
- Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter
- Olga Boznańska, Polish painter
- Jules Breton, French painter
- Mary Cassatt, American painter and printmaker
- Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and stained-glass artist
- George Clausen, English painter and printmaker
- John Constable, English painter
- Lucas Cranach The Elder, German painter and printmaker
- Albert Edelfelt, Finnish painter
- James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker
- Luis Ricardo Falero, Spanish painter
- Émile Friant, French painter and drawer
- Caspar David Friedrich, German painter
- Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor
- Winslow Homer, American painter and illustrator
- Edward Robert Hughes, English painter
- Paul Klee, Swiss painter, drawer and printmaker
- Daniel Ridgway Knight, American painter
- Frederic Leighton, English painter, draughtsman, and sculptor
- Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter
2005
- Gianlorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and architect
- William Blake, English painter and printmaker
- Paul Cézanne, French painter
- Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker
- John William Godward, English painter
- Tadeusz Makowski, Polish painter
- John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator
- Jean-François Millet, French painter and drawer
- Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist
- Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator
- Robert Lewis Reid, American painter
- Egon Schiele, Austrian painter
- Chaïm Soutine, French-Belarusian painter
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator
- Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter and printmaker
- Kees Van Dongen, Dutch-French painter
- Théo Van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter
- John William Waterhouse, English painter
- Andrew Wyeth, American painter
2006
- Michael Ancher, Danish painter
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter
- Jean Frederic Bazille, French painter
- Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker and sculptor
- Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter
- Pierre Bonnard, French painter, illustrator and printmaker
- William Merritt Chase, American painter
- Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist
- Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker
- Albrecht Dürer, German painter and printmaker
- Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter and printmaker
- William Holman Hunt, English painter
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker
- Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and drawer
- Peder Severin Krøyer, Danish painter
- René Magritte, Belgian painter
- Edouard Manet, French painter
- Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist
- Odilon Redon, French painter, printmaker and drawer
- Auguste Rodin, French sculptor
2007
- Francis Bacon, Irish painter
- Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator
- Frank Weston Benson, American painter and etcher
- Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor
- Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
- Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter
- George Paul Chalmers, Scottish painter
- Georges De La Tour, French painter
- Jean-Honore Fragonard, French painter and printmaker
- El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos), Greek painter, sculptor and architect
- Frederick Childe Hassam, American painter
- Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter
- John Atkinson Grimshaw, English painter
- George Grosz, German painter and drawer
- Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter
- Willard Leroy Metcalf, American painter
- Berthe Morisot, French painter
- Georgia O’Keeffe, American painter, sculptor, drawer and photgrapher
- Alfred Sisley, British-French painter
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect and designer
2008
- Anna Ancher, Danish painter
- Myron G. Barlow, American painter
- Jean Béraud, French painter
- Émile Bernard, French painter
- Édouard Bisson, French painter
- Oscar Björck, Swedish painter
- Émilie Charmy, French painter
- Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator
- Herbert James Draper, English painter
- Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Finnish painter
- Christian Krohg, Norwegian painter and illustrator
- Arthur Melville, Scottish painter
- Max Nonnenbruch, German painter
- Beatrix Potter, English illustrator
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter and illustrator
- Franz Von Stuck, German painter, sculptor, printmaker and architect
- Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter
- James Tissot, French painter and illustrator
- Suzanne Valadon, French painter
- Maurice Vlaminck, French painter
2009
- John White Alexander, American painter and illustrator
- Federico Andreotti, Italian painter
- William Arthur Breakspeare, English painter
- Dale Chihuly, American glass artist
- Howard Chandler Christy, American illustrator and painter
- Frank Cadogan Cowper, English painter and illustrator
- Amélie Lundahl, Finnish painter
- Gil Elvgren, American illustrator and painter
- Delphin Enjolras, French painter
- Frank Gehry, American architect and designer
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter
- Edgar Maxence, French painter
- Renzo Piano, Italian architect
- Laurits Andersen Ring, Danish painter
- Eero Saarinen, Finnish/American architect and industrial designer
- Byam Shaw, British painter, illustrator and designer
- Adam Styka, French/Polish painter
- Alberto Vargas, Peruvian/American painter
- Maria Wiik, Finnish painter
- Irving Ramsey Wiles, American painter
2010
- Diane Arbus, American photographer
- Cecil Beaton, British photographer
- Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer
- Alexandre-Jacques Chantron, French painter
- Charles Joshua Chaplin, French painter and printmaker
- John Maler Collier, British painter
- Lovis Corinth, German painter
- Erté, Russian/French designer
- Paul-Gustave Fischer, Danish painter
- Wilhelm Busch, German illustrator and painter
- Émile Gallé, French glass artist
- Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian painter
- Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer
- René Lalique, French jeweller, medalist and glass designer
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French painter
- Ernest Edouard Martens, French painter
- Henrietta Rae, British painter
- Ilya Efimovich Repin, Russian painter
- Guillaume Seignac, French painter
- Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer
2011
- Albert Anker, Swiss painter and illustrator
- John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator
- Rupert Bunny, Australian painter
- Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian painter
- Edouard Léon Cortès, French/Spanish painter
- Walter Crane, English painter and illustrator
- William Russell Flint, Scottish painter, illustrator and printmaker
- Elizabeth Adela Forbes, Canadian painter
- Arthur Hacker, English painter
- Louis Welden Hawkins, English/French painter
- Edward Atkinson Hornel, Scottish painter
- Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter
- John La Farge, American painter and stained glass artist
- Joseph Christian Leyendecker, American painter and illustrator
- Charles Sprague Pearce, American painter, drawer, sculptor and printmaker
- Paul Peel, Canadian painter
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter
- Carlos Schwabe, Swiss painter and printmaker
- Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter
- Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson, Swedish painter and graphic artist
2012
- George Bellows, American painter
- Nikolay Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky, Russian painter
- Ernest Biéler, Swiss painter, drawer and printmaker
- Albert Bierstadt, German/American painter
- Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Danish painter
- Ramon Casas, Catalan painter
- Marie Francois Firmin-Girard, French painter
- Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter
- Martin Johnson Heade, American painter
- Louise de Hem, Belgian painter
- Raphael Kirchner, Austrian painter and illustrator
- Carl Larsson, Swedish painter
- Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor and illustrator
- Jakub Schikaneder, German/Bohemian painter
- Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova, Russian/French painter
- Elisabeth Sonrel, French painter and illustrator
- Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish/American photographer and painter
- Gustav Stickley, American furniture designer
- Marianne Stokes, Austrian painter
- N.C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator
2013
- Edward Cucuel, American painter
- Charles Courtney Curran, American painter
- Thomas Cooper Gotch, English painter and illustrator
- Harold Harvey, English painter
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect
- Max Kurzweil, Austrian painter and printmaker
- Walter Langley, English painter
- Henry Herbert La Thangue, English painter
- John Lavery, Irish painter
- Henri Lebasque, French painter
- Bruno Liljefors, Swedish painter
- José Malhoa, Portuguese painter
- Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese painter
- Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter
- Ernst Stöhr, Austrian painter and graphic artist
- Annie Louisa Swynnerton, British painter
- Ettore Tito, Italian painter
- Fernand Toussaint, Belgian painter and illustrator
- Jack Butler Yeats, Irish painter
- Fausto Zonaro, Italian painter
2014
- Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Russian painter
- Louis Apol, Dutch painter
- Gustave Courbet, French painter
- Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter, sculptor, drawer and stage designer
- Hector Guimard, French architect
- George Hitchcock, American painter
- Jozef Israëls, Dutch painter
- Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter
- Alfred Kubin, Austrian painter, illustrator and printmaker
- Henri Le Sidaner, Breton/French painter
- Charles Leickert, Belgian painter
- Josef Loukota, Czech painter and illustrator
- Jacek Malczewski, Polish painter
- Agnes Slott-Møller, Danish painter
- Leo Putz, Austrian painter
- Julius LeBlanc Stewart, American painter
- Jan Toorop, Dutch painter
- Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter
- Marianne von Werefkin, Russian painter
- Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter, sculptor and drawer
2015
- Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator
- Alexandre Cabanel, French painter
- Ernesto de la Cárcova, Argentinian painter
- Charles Conder, Australian painter
- John Duncan Fergusson, Scottish painter and sculptor
- Elioth Gruner, Australian painter
- George Henry, Scottish painter
- Carlos María Herrera, Uruguayan painter
- Eero Järnefelt, Finnish painter
- Ernst Josephson, Swedish painter
- Frances MacDonald, Scottish painter and illustrator
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter
- Frederick McCubbin, Australian painter
- William McTaggart, Scottish painter
- Mykola Pymonenko, Ukrainian painter
- Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter
- Carl Spitzweg, German painter
- Jan Van Beers, Belgian painter and illustrator
- Leon Wyczółkowski, Polish painter
- Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish painter, architect and drawer
2016
2016
- Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter
- Ettore De Maria Bergler, Italian painter
- Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer and sculptor
- Jean-Louis Forain, French painter and printmaker
- Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor
- H.R. Giger, Swiss painter, illustrator and sculptor
- Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter
- Käthe Kollwitz, German painter, printmaker and sculptor
- Gaston La Touche, French painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor
- Gheorghe Petrașcu, Romanian painter
- Arthur Rackham, English illustrator
- Jean-François Raffaëlli, French painter, sculptor and illustrator
- József Rippl-Rónai, Hungarian painter
- Christian Skredsvig, Norwegian painter
- Jessie Willcox Smith, American Illustrator
- José Gutiérrez Solana, Spanish painter and engraver
- Nicolae Tonitza, Romanian painter, engraver and lithographer
- Erik Werenskiold, Norwegian painter and illustrator
- Ignacio Zuloaga, Spanish painter
2017
- Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter and sculptor
- Ed Benguiat, American type designer and lettering artist
- İbrahim Çallı, Turkish painter
- Hans Dahl, Norwegian painter
- Russell Drysdale, Australian painter
- Peter Fendi, Austrian painter, engraver and lithographer
- E. Phillips Fox, Australian painter
- Henry Fuseli, Swiss painter and drawer
- Daniel Garber, American painter
- Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter
- Urs Graf, Swiss painter, printmaker and goldsmith
- Raymond Loewy, French/American industrial designer
- Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer
- Henri Matisse, French painter, illustrator, sculptor and drawer
- Richard Edward Miller, American painter
- Jozef Teodor Mousson, Slovak painter
- Eilif Peterssen, Norwegian painter
- Theodore Robinson, American painter
- Arthur Streeton, Australian painter
- Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter
